Thematic Bible: Wives obtained
Thematic Bible
Marriage » Wives obtained » By purchase
So I bought her to me for fifteen silver pieces, and for a homer of barley, and a half-homer of barley.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they were in his eyes as single days, because he loved her.
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
Marriage » Wives obtained » By kidnapping
and watch; if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and seize each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin. And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us; because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.'" And the Benjaminites did so, and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off; then they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the towns, and dwelt in them.
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